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The history of Flickr

Di Giorgio | 23 de September de 2008 | 2 comments

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This all started by Caterina Fake and her husband Stewart Butterfield, or rather, by one of their engineer. In fact, the couple runs a start-up of online games to Vancuver, British Columbia, and its one of those involved in planning for this start up has designed the first tool that then become Flickr that we all know.

And in a few years, through the acquisition of Flickr by Yahoo, the site has become one of the community's largest photo sharing site.

Caterina Fake has repeatedly stated: "If we had sat down and decided we had a table to create a photo sharing application have failed, we would have certainly made too many mistakes."

Thus, in the co-founder of the service, the randomization was the source of all the successes of Flickr, but I would say that more than the chance to dictate the pace of exponential service photo-sharing was the responsibility of those who he designed and gave him the cut he has.
In a nutshell:

- Excellent graphics, minimal, non-invasive, clear and simple, so as not to distract the user from the product at the center of the site, photos.

- Ease of Use

- Logo and colors fully distinguishable

- Widgets and integrations with third-party services, creating a movement of the brand through users

- Investments targeted advertising (do not forget that behind Flickr is a start-up already under way, was not born in a garage as YouTube)

The start up of the "spouses Flickr, the Ludicorp, has never released the video which was working, but was bought by Yahoo shortly after the creation of Flickr and its staff was moved to Sunnyvale, California.
Flickr's traffic has grown exponentially of 448% winning 3.4 million visitors from December 2004 to the same month of 2005, according to the agency Nielsen / NetRatings.
After the acquisition by Yahoo, the site has grown from 250,000 users to over 2 million, with the beauty of 100 million shared photos.

Even Chad Hurley, CEO of YouTube, has become a fan of Flickr and attributed the success of the site to its basic functionality that has solved the problem for many internet users, how to share photos efficiently. "
And it should be noted that this is why it was founded on the YouTube site, enabling users to share videos that are not otherwise able to move through more conventional means (ie 1.0), such as webmail.

The innovations of Flickr than other sites of photo-sharing can be summarized in:

- Friends can just check the photos posted by the search functionality and add comments and notes.

- A distinctive tool allows bloggers to post photos on the blog that is on your Flickr account

- The system of tags that allows the addition of "tags" so as to make the photos more easily searched "

Although the co-founder Stewart Butterfield loves to recall that the greatest innovation of flickr was to recognize the social nature of photography.

One of the executives of Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz, in connection reminds us that Flickr was acquired by Yahoo and as a result has never been promoted in the Yahoo.com home page, acknowledging the mouth a lot more rewarding than the usual modus operandi advertising. And it was so!
There has never been a link on the homepage of the search engine, and Flickr has maintained its independence until it became the colossus that is!

Flickr cofounders Caterina Fake Steward Butterfield

Below an example of a video posted on YouTube, made using a soundtrack and photos of Flickr. A very popular trend among users of Flickr is the creation of a video sequence by putting in their own image, should have a soundtrack and then post on video sharing sites, thus increasing the chance that your photos have the necessary visibility or raise success.